chronicle
Sequential event log
A chronicle is a record of events in the order they happened, typically covering a significant span of time.
Medieval chronicles documented the histories of kingdoms and monasteries.
The word now applies broadly to any sequential account: a chronicle of the civil rights movement, a family chronicle spanning four generations.
To chronicle is to record events this way: She chronicled her travels in a series of essays.
Stored data or albums
- logbookOfficial record of events
- registryOfficial record of entries
- ledgerFinancial record book
- journalRecord of daily events
diary · minutes · transcript · catalogue · dossier · inventory · register · entry
Extended heroic narrative
- taleSpoken or written narrative
- epicImpressively grand in scope
- legendUnverified traditional tale
- accountRecord of dealings
story · narrative · memoir · biography · autobiography · recounting · anecdote · history
Printed periodical of current events
- gazetteOfficial published journal
- heraldOfficial news announcer
- tribuneSpeaker's raised platform
- reporterOne who gathers news
correspondent · coverage · dispatch · bulletin · press · news · observer · sentinel
Year-by-year historical account
- antiquityGreat age, ancient era
- epochsDistinct historical stretches
- erasNamed spans of history
- dynastiesSuccessive rulers from one family
civilizations · heritage · ancestry · prehistory · archaeology · genealogy · relics · artifacts
Ordered succession of elements
- successionFollowing in order
- eraDistinct historical period
- epochDistinct historical period
- periodPunctuation ending sentences
age · century · millennium · decade · dates · progression · span · duration
records
Stored data or albums
journal · diary · minutes · transcript · catalogue · dossier · inventory · register · entry · archive
saga
Extended heroic narrative
account · story · narrative · memoir · biography · autobiography · recounting · anecdote · history · lore
newspaper
Printed periodical of current events
reporter · correspondent · coverage · dispatch · bulletin · press · news · observer · sentinel · courier
annals
Year-by-year historical account
dynasties · civilizations · heritage · ancestry · prehistory · archaeology · genealogy · relics · artifacts · monuments
sequence
Ordered succession of elements
- successionFollowing in order
- eraDistinct historical period
- epochDistinct historical period
period · age · century · millennium · decade · dates · progression · span · duration · continuity
- storytellingstorytelling, story, tale, narrative, narrator
- biographiesbiography, biographies, autobiography, autobiographies, memoir
- history termsempire, dynasty, colonialism, Renaissance, Enlightenment
- backstoryorigin story, origin, past, background, history
- epicIliad, Odyssey, Beowulf, Aeneid, Gilgamesh
- medieval documentscharter, royal charter, town charter, indenture, patent
chroniclefiction
Imagined narrative work
myth · fabrication · fable · legend · fantasy
- chronic painEnduring physical suffering
- chronic illnessLasting health impairment
- chronic conditionPersistent medical state
- chronic fatigueLasting state of tiredness
- chronic diseasePersistent medical condition
- chronic anxietyProlonged state of unease
chronic, chronicles, chronicled, chronicler, chronicling, chroniclers